Gerontology & Geriatric Research

Abstract

Effectiveness of Life Style Interventions as Self Help Technique to Enhance Psychological Well-Being of Institutionalized and Non-Institutionalized Senior Citizens

Sharma R and Mahavidyalya A

Objective: To explore the effectiveness of life style interventions as self-help technique to enhance psychological well-being of institutionalized and non-institutionalized senior citizens.

Tools - Psychological well-being scale, Leisure time activity scale, Life style scale, Depression scale.

Methodology: It is a community based experimental study with a sample of 240 senior citizens selected randomly at phase one and purposive sampling was done at second phase. Population was divided into control (n=120) and experimental group (n=120) in phase II. Assessment was done before and after six months intervention, further follow up was done after a month. The intervention was consist of exercises; diet schedule, physical activities and meditation.

Results: Older people having poor psychological well-beingin experimental group showed significant improvements in PWB scale, LTA scale and LS scale (p<0.01) after interventions. Depression found to be significantly higher (p<0.05) among institutionalized group no significant difference was found on other indicators of PWB when compared with non-institutionalized group. But follow-up results showed significant degradation on all indicators of PWB and LS.